GREECE: The Resolute Hand

Behind shuttered windows in a villa outside
Athens, doctors fought for the future of Greece. Tuberculosis,
contracted in Nazi concentration camps, had finally struck down aging
(71) Field Marshal Alexander Papagos. For months the news was played
down while the ailing Premier directed affairs of state through
deputies. The resolute hand that had steered Greece through the last
three years was needed in a new crisis. U.S. economic aid was
dwindling, the country was in a bitter mood about Cyprus, and Greek
Communists were pushing for a popular front. But one night...